Islam Essays

Tawheed in Islam is very important as it means that believing in one lord and no one else. It is attributing oneness to Allah and describing him as being one and unique as he has no partner in his essence and attributes. However if one doesn’t believe in this then …

Islam considers freedom to be a natural right of the human being. Life becomes devoid of worth when freedom is not present. When a person loses his freedom, his inner self dies, even though on the outside, he continues to live; eating, drinking, working, and going through the other motions …

While from 600 BCE – 1450 CE Christianity, Buddhism, and Islam spread in various different methods such as violence and empires, it was also spread by the use of missionaries in some religions. This occurred mainly due to each religions desire to convert as many people as possible, and desire …

The “Post-Classical Period,” was a time of change, expansion, and vast cultural diffusion. The Islamic civilization is a group that emerged from the Semitic groups of southwestern Asia, and moved to the Arabian peninsula in tribes, known as the Bedouin tribes, due to lack of water and food. The Islamic …

Islamic expert John Esposito mainly focused on the topic of Islam and terrorism while trying to answer some questions, how to make a modern terrorist, what is the definition of Jihad, how does Islam used in the sense of terrorism, by giving historical experiences, and events as examples to enable …

Life of Pi was first published in 2001. A year later, Yann Martel wins the Man Booker Prize for Life of Pi, the fourth book written by this author. Histoire de Pi, its French translation could have easily been the original title of the book, since Martel is Canadian with …

Malcolm X, born Malcolm Little and also known as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, was an African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist. To his admirers he was a courageous advocate for the rights of blacks, a man who indicted white America in the harshest terms for its crimes against black Americans; …

            The word Sufi is Arabic for wool which symbolizes purity in Islam. Sufism is an Islam’s mystical tradition defined by scholars as a science that aims at making the heart focus on God only and thus cleansing oneself. It is practised by a Sufi. It is thought to have …

Introduction             Genocide intended for any race, tribe or nation will no longer be performed by anybody again. This is the hope and aspiration of everyone since events like the Holocaust took place. This is provided in the United Nations Article III of the Convention for the Prevention and Punishment …

In specific, this essay will discuss the origin and early expansion of Islam. In addition, some of the social, political, religious, and economic conditions before the advent of Islam will be discussed as well. Islam brought a number of changes and Muslims evolved politically in Byzantine and Sassanian Empires, which …